The next R-meetup is around the corner on Tuesday 24th (currently 6 spots left) at Goldenes Lamm with a presentation of a few project ideas and first results. Finally we will have a nice talk about setting up R-packages on Github by Mateusz Zoltak.
Projects
The following project streams have been selected and coordinators assigned:
- Open Government Data Vienna
- Show Population Densities and Bike Parking Lots in Vienna with nice visualisations (Christian).
- Parliamentary voting results (input from Mateusz)
- Harvesting data, e.g. Beschlüsse des Nationalrats from https://www.data.gv.at
- Visualization
- Text Mining Vienna
- Text mining (Mario)
- Public newspapers
- Most popular words in Newspapers
- HC Strache Posts on Facebook
- Use Kaggle as an Inspiration (Walter, Mario)
- Hillary Clintons E-mails
- Text mining (Mario)
- Fantasy Sports, e.g. from Yahoo (short intro/write–up by Daniel)
- Put team together based on statistics, e.g. Baseball
- References:
Presentation R-Package Setup on Github
Mateusz will give us an interesting introduction on Git(hub) and how to create and manage R-packages. The talk will cover the following points:
Organisational
- Determine next dates (with Matthias)
- Manage user access, contributions to Blog
Like in previous Meetups we are happy to have some presentations of ViennaR participants. Just drop us a mail that you are planning a presentation during one of the next meetups. Any suggestions like fixed discussion topics, e.g. book presentations, new R packages around, etc. are highly welcome. Just let us know!
Best,
-ViennaR